Dr. Joan Dudney
@dudney-joan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ucsantabarbara Global Change Forest Ecologist @switzernetwork @SmithFellows @PeaceCorps #BLM
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Dr. Joan Dudney
@dudney-joan.bsky.social
· Sep 29
Thrilled our #AREES review on #Disturbance #Interactions is out! #ClimateChange = MAJOR DISRUPTER, but not how you’d expect 👀
#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3p97ztr5
#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3p97ztr5
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🌳 Our research in Nature Communications!
Converting coniferous to broad-leaved forests in Europe could cut summer hot extremes by up to 1 °C — boosting climate effectiveness.
Read more 👇
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64580-y
#ForestNavigator #ClimateScience #Forestry #NatureComms
Converting coniferous to broad-leaved forests in Europe could cut summer hot extremes by up to 1 °C — boosting climate effectiveness.
Read more 👇
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64580-y
#ForestNavigator #ClimateScience #Forestry #NatureComms
Conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees can make European forests more climate-effective - Nature Communications
This study investigates the effects of forestation on temperature in Europe using climate model experiments. The findings indicate that conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees in currently for...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🌳 Our research in Nature Communications!
Converting coniferous to broad-leaved forests in Europe could cut summer hot extremes by up to 1 °C — boosting climate effectiveness.
Read more 👇
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64580-y
#ForestNavigator #ClimateScience #Forestry #NatureComms
Converting coniferous to broad-leaved forests in Europe could cut summer hot extremes by up to 1 °C — boosting climate effectiveness.
Read more 👇
🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64580-y
#ForestNavigator #ClimateScience #Forestry #NatureComms
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded
🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors
📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded
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Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Great to see the results of our massive biodiversity assessment at Berchtesgaden Natl. Park pour in! Cool insights on patterns & drivers of multidiversity!
#1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
#1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Great to see the results of our massive biodiversity assessment at Berchtesgaden Natl. Park pour in! Cool insights on patterns & drivers of multidiversity!
#1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
#1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪
Congratulations @julieedtree.bsky.social on this cutting-edge research, out today #AGUpubs!
High-resolution tree-ring data are dramatically improving our ability to estimate past climate. We’re now much closer to accurately tracking temperature changes—both today and across history!
High-resolution tree-ring data are dramatically improving our ability to estimate past climate. We’re now much closer to accurately tracking temperature changes—both today and across history!
Dr. Julie Edwards (@julieedtree.bsky.social) leads a new paper showing that high-resolution cellular-scale measurements (Quantitative Wood Anatomy) yield better temperature signals in Alaskan tree rings than even conventional MXD across all frequencies agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Resolution and Frequency‐Dependent Climate Signals in an Arctic Tree‐Ring Temperature Reconstruction of the Last Millennium
Tree-ring density measurement resolution affects low-frequency trends in temperature reconstructions High-resolution anatomical maximum latewood density has stronger correlations with instrumenta...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Congratulations @julieedtree.bsky.social on this cutting-edge research, out today #AGUpubs!
High-resolution tree-ring data are dramatically improving our ability to estimate past climate. We’re now much closer to accurately tracking temperature changes—both today and across history!
High-resolution tree-ring data are dramatically improving our ability to estimate past climate. We’re now much closer to accurately tracking temperature changes—both today and across history!
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📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography
Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...
gmd.copernicus.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy to announce a short perspective piece as part of a SynCom @helmholtz.de working group. Discussing the breadth of biodiversity indicators, we encourage to differentiate better between multidimensional diagnosis, leading steering & actionable management indicators
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
Operational perspectives for biodiversity indicators
To understand, measure and mitigate biodiversity change, science and policy need to differentiate between diagnostic indicators that capture as many different biodiversity facets as needed, outcome-o...
dx.doi.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy to announce a short perspective piece as part of a SynCom @helmholtz.de working group. Discussing the breadth of biodiversity indicators, we encourage to differentiate better between multidimensional diagnosis, leading steering & actionable management indicators
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688... 🧪
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Paper out in Ecology Letters!
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
Resurveyed Island Vegetation Reveals That Species Colonisation and Extinction Probabilities Are Linked to Traits
We show that species richness and community trait composition on 132 Australian islands remained stable over six decades, despite high species turnover. Colonisation and extinction probabilities were....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Paper out in Ecology Letters!
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲
Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ
Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲
Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ
Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
A very fascinating and detailed study on estimating Site Index using mobile laser scanning and deep learning, along with an excellent discussion on the challenges ahead. 🍁 🌳🔥 🌐
#ForestEcology
Thanks to @mariamoan.bsky.social and @hansoleorka.bsky.social and co-authors.
@skogrover.bsky.social
#ForestEcology
Thanks to @mariamoan.bsky.social and @hansoleorka.bsky.social and co-authors.
@skogrover.bsky.social
Can site index be determined using branch whorls detected by deep learning from very dense laser scanning data? 🌲
Check out our newly published paper to find out!
academic.oup.com/forestry/adv...
Check out our newly published paper to find out!
academic.oup.com/forestry/adv...
October 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A very fascinating and detailed study on estimating Site Index using mobile laser scanning and deep learning, along with an excellent discussion on the challenges ahead. 🍁 🌳🔥 🌐
#ForestEcology
Thanks to @mariamoan.bsky.social and @hansoleorka.bsky.social and co-authors.
@skogrover.bsky.social
#ForestEcology
Thanks to @mariamoan.bsky.social and @hansoleorka.bsky.social and co-authors.
@skogrover.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Pine plantations burn more severely & recover more slowly than other vegetation types. This is observed using the forest map (L) or the forest inventory (R), Spain
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/10/16/p...
🧪🌎🔥🍁🌳🔥 wildfire @jappliedecology.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
An article about a former lab tech in my lab, Kim Ballare, in the new NYTimes "Lost Science" series about impacts of federal cuts. Thanks to @carlzimmer.com for doing this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An article about a former lab tech in my lab, Kim Ballare, in the new NYTimes "Lost Science" series about impacts of federal cuts. Thanks to @carlzimmer.com for doing this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...
Rarely do I get to see seminars that truly inspire—but this one hit all the high notes! Thanks for visiting us!
Great visit to UCSB & an honor to present in the EEMB seminar series. Was fun to talk forests, fire, & resilience w/ many awesome faculty, graduate students & undergrads.
🌲🔥
Thanks to Anderegg Lab for hosting me, esp Joe Celebrezze. Was fun to be back at my UG alma mater.
@dudney-joan.bsky.social
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Thanks to Anderegg Lab for hosting me, esp Joe Celebrezze. Was fun to be back at my UG alma mater.
@dudney-joan.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Rarely do I get to see seminars that truly inspire—but this one hit all the high notes! Thanks for visiting us!
Thrilled our #AREES review on #Disturbance #Interactions is out! #ClimateChange = MAJOR DISRUPTER, but not how you’d expect 👀
#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3p97ztr5
#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3p97ztr5
September 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Thrilled our #AREES review on #Disturbance #Interactions is out! #ClimateChange = MAJOR DISRUPTER, but not how you’d expect 👀
#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3p97ztr5
#NewFramework: #CC effects on interactions🧪🌐🍁🌱
HUGE🙏4 legendary efforts: @rupertseidl.bsky.social @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social @julieedtree.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3p97ztr5
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
Plants cool the land through evapotranspiration, but green foliage can absorb more heat than lighter surfaces, causing warming. A study finds that in the northern hemisphere, cooling outweighs warming until the end of the growing season. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Plants cool the land through evapotranspiration, but green foliage can absorb more heat than lighter surfaces, causing warming. A study finds that in the northern hemisphere, cooling outweighs warming until the end of the growing season. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
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🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
Patterns of Herbivory and Resource Utilization of Tree Seedlings Along an Altitudinal Gradient - Ecosystems
In montane areas, climate change can shift tree species distributions upslope over time which can affect forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Seedlings of low-elevation temperate broadleaf tree...
doi.org
September 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
@appmtnclub.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s100...
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In case you feel lazy & do not want to read the whole paper, I added a bit more context on the key findings of our recent paper investigating 🌸 time shifts across 11 ⛰️ ranges in 🇨🇳🌏🌐
Happy to have contributed to this nice study just published in #GCB on plants' phenological shifts across China's subtropical mountains: we used data from herbarium specimens to generate time series of flowering time at the species level & infer phenological shifts
🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂
shorturl.at/26dwH
🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂
shorturl.at/26dwH
Climate‐Driven Variability in Flowering Phenology Changes Across Subtropical Mountains: Traits, Elevation Shifts, and Biogeographic Patterns
Flowering times were advanced in southeastern mountains but delayed in southwestern ranges. Climate change, species functional traits, and mountain properties all had significant effects on the obser...
shorturl.at
September 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
In case you feel lazy & do not want to read the whole paper, I added a bit more context on the key findings of our recent paper investigating 🌸 time shifts across 11 ⛰️ ranges in 🇨🇳🌏🌐
Reposted by Dr. Joan Dudney
Happy to have contributed to this nice study just published in #GCB on plants' phenological shifts across China's subtropical mountains: we used data from herbarium specimens to generate time series of flowering time at the species level & infer phenological shifts
🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂
shorturl.at/26dwH
🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂
shorturl.at/26dwH
Climate‐Driven Variability in Flowering Phenology Changes Across Subtropical Mountains: Traits, Elevation Shifts, and Biogeographic Patterns
Flowering times were advanced in southeastern mountains but delayed in southwestern ranges. Climate change, species functional traits, and mountain properties all had significant effects on the obser...
shorturl.at
September 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Happy to have contributed to this nice study just published in #GCB on plants' phenological shifts across China's subtropical mountains: we used data from herbarium specimens to generate time series of flowering time at the species level & infer phenological shifts
🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂
shorturl.at/26dwH
🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂
shorturl.at/26dwH
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Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
🔗 buff.ly/1b3WfmT
@kalimiddleby.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/1b3WfmT
@kalimiddleby.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
🔗 buff.ly/1b3WfmT
@kalimiddleby.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
🔗 buff.ly/1b3WfmT
@kalimiddleby.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social
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New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...